Four Child Inventors Who Weren’t Arrested And One Who Was
Digital Clock Display Beyond silence, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 On Sunday, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas, built a digital clock using a circuit board, a digital display, and other components, all housed in a pencil case. It took him about 20 minutes, and he brought it to school the next morning, hoping his teachers could point him to engineering clubs. Instead of rewarding his engineering skill and enthusiasm, Ahmed’s school suspended him and had him arrested over fears that the clock was a homemade bomb. Here’s Ahmad explaining it, in his own words, to the Dallas Morning News: Video of Irving MacArthur student arrested after bringing homemade clock to school Since the Dallas Morning News story broke last night, the news went viral, with scientists, engineers, and technologists across the...